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“If I take that gag off are you going to scream?” I hiss.
She shakes her pretty head back and forth eagerly. Her hair falls across her face. I sigh. Screw it. I reach out and yank the gag out of her pouty lips.
“FUCK YOU! YOU FUCKING MOTHERFUCKING—!”
I slip the gag back in and sigh. I glare at her sitting there cussing at me with fury in her eyes.
“You done yet?” I grunt when she finally takes a damn breath. My eyes sweep over her. Fuck, she’s stunning. And the way she’s sitting with her legs tucked under her has her sundress riding high up on her thighs. A part of me wants to reach out and shove it the rest of the way up. But I’m not that man.
Not yet, at least. But I don’t know how long being around a girl as utterly tempting as her I can stand before I do become that man.
“Get that out of your system?” I snap. She just glares at me. One corner of my mouth curls into a lopsided grin. I do like that fire in her. I reach out, and with a growl, I tug the gag out again. She doesn’t scream, thank God.
“All better now?”
“Fuck you,” she spits at me.
I just smile.
“Do you know who my—”
“Yeah,” I snarl. My frown returns. “Yeah, I know who your daddy is.”
“Well whatever your problem with him is, I’m not him, okay?”
“Well thank God,” I smirk. “Because you fill out the sundress much better than Dino.”
She glares at me. Her eyes drop over me, and she frowns when they center on the blood-soaked bandages wrapped around my ribs. “Jesus Christ,” she murmurs. There’s actual concern in her voice, too. “Are you shot?”
“I’m fine.”
She glances back up at my face. “What do you want with me? Money?”
“Yep,” I shrug. At least, that’s all Ididwant. The idea was to take Dino’s daughter, and ransom her back for cold cash and a free pass out of New York. The idea was to escape to a beach somewhere with a whole bunch of Dino’s money and drink Mai Thai’s until the cows came home. But then I laid eyes on Tessa, and my whole world shifted.
“He can pay you,” she says quickly. “My dad, I mean.”
“I know he can. And he will.”
“So that’s what all of this is? You want money?”
“The whole world wants money, sweetheart.”
“Yeah, well some of us work for it,” she snaps.
I laugh. “Taking daddy’s dirty money is working for it?” She glares at me. “And I did work for it.”
“Doing what, kidnapping people? Killing them? Selling drugs?”
“Stealing, mostly”
Tessa rolls her eyes. “You’re ditching on me for coming from a wealthy family, and you ‘earned’ your money by stealing it?” She frowns. “Go play the sad working everyman act for someone else. I’ve seen a hundred wannabe thugs like you working with my dad.”
“Sounds like a really great childhood,” I say dryly. “Now, let’s go.”
She gasps when I reach for her. My hand closes around her petite arm, but I don’t yank her out. I help her up and help her climb down out of the van herself. Immediately, her forehead slams into my nose. I swear and double over. I can hear the sound of her sandals slapping the concrete as she runs off screaming her head off about being kidnapped.
Goddamnit, this was not the fucking plan.
